Gabor Maté’s Bizarre Ideas on Connections Between Stress and Disease
Further explorations of the hidden-trauma/polyvagal theory/psychedelic psychotherapy nexus of nonsense.
Gabor Maté’s issues are with evidence, not the West and with public health, not medicine, but who takes him seriously? Lots of otherwise smart people seem to…or maybe not.
I chose to discuss Why We Get Sick, a lecture Maté delivered in London because it puts Maté’s ideas on full display.
The complete video of the lecture was uploaded in August 2019 by How To Academy Mindset. The video is part of a series that includes Jordan Peterson and Bessel van der Kolk. On Google, the YouTube video is re-titled Dr. Gabor Maté on The Connection Between Stress and Disease.
Struggling to get through this video, my mind wandered to thoughts of how lucky I would have been to be in London, maybe at the same theatre, when a true Canadian gift to the world, Leonard Cohen performed the concert captured in the Live in London 2-CD set.
